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I have to admit that despite me, dep really managed to get my spirits down with his bullcr*p FUD, ruining a whole evening for me. Although, it was only a matter of time after he posted that anti-german article...

Actually, I disagree, it wasn't a very good response, it talked in generalities and rebuted no specific claims DEP had just calling them "difficult to disprove untruths" and dismissed them. Possibly that attitude is what DEP was referring to in the article? Finally, you cannot claim DEP was feigning "some kind of friendliness" towards KDE as for the past 3 or 4 years, it was hard to find anyone lessKDE friendly. Are you saying that this was all some sort of act?

Once things are done a certain way, headed in a certain direction,
it's really tough to alter them. That's what keeps Windows on millions of
machines whose owners hate that operating system. And it's what keeps KDE on my
desktop, at least for the moment.

The KDE project is like Microsoft.

I have been using KDE as my Linux desktop ever since the
day[...]

I'm an old timer, so I know what I'm talking about.

I kept using XFMail, Netscape, StarOffice, NEdit, and whatever else
I'd been using all along -- I didn't even, at first, employ KPPP as a dialer,
though I'd migrate to it quickly and to KMail soon thereafter.

I didn't actually use KDE 1, apart from the window manager bit.

The reason I might make the switch back is that after many months
using it, I've come to the conclusion that KDE3 kind of sucks.

I don't like KDE 3.

Initially, KDE3 was going to be little more than KDE2 ported to
Qt3. That is what it should have been. Then feature creep set in.

They made some relatively minor changes to the user interface which I didn't
like.

Then came an unhappy, "we know more than users do," attitude on the
part of developers.

So I whined on a mailing list and was shocked to find that everyone
disagreed with my opinions. My opinions !

changes were made; none that I can find that add to the utility of
the system

But I think that much of what I don't like about KDE3 is more a
change in the attitude of the KDE developer community than anything else; the
jump to Qt3 need not have been as wrenching as it was.

People found my constant whining and refusal to listen annoying.

Take a look at freshmeat under email clients: you'll find a forest
of GNOME apps, but KDE is pretty limited.

It's much better to have 10 half-finished applications than 1 perfect
one.

Yes, it's possible still to run third-party apps written to another
toolkit or for another desktop under KDE. But what's the point? So that one may
take advantage of KDE3's delightfully quirky, paste-what-it-damn-well-pleases
clipboard, which worked in KDE2, protestations to the contrary notwithstanding,
but which is tremendously screwed up now?

Is the Tibirna interview a new one? It only talks about old stuff and I think I read it somewhere years ago. And HierMenus seems old news too, the page was created in April (perhaps it was only mentioned in Kernel Cousin KDE then)?

"GARNOME is a new distribution of GNOME, based on the GAR ports system by Nick Moffitt. Right now, it builds from the recent GNOME 2.0 Desktop tarball releases, and includes some extra software that has been ported to the GNOME 2.0 platform."